Women and the making of America
By: Mari Jo Buhle, Teresa Murphy, Jane Gerhard.
Contributors: Murphy, Teresa.; Gerhard, Jane F.
Publisher: Pearson Prentice Hall; Prentice Hall
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Upper Saddle River, N.J
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780131839168; 9780138126889; 9780138126872
Subjects: Women's studies -- United States -- History; Feminism -- United States -- History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Worlds apart, to 1700; title: Contact and conquest, 1500-1700; title: Eighteenth century revolutions; title: Frontiers of trade and empire; title: Domestic economies and northern lives; title: Family business: slavery and patriarchy; title: Religion and reform; title: Politics and power: the movement for woman?s rights; title: The Civil War, 1861-1865; title: In the age of slave emancipation, 1865 - 1877; title: The trans-Mississippi west, 1860-1900; title: New women; title: The woman movement, 1880-1900; title: The new morality, 1880-1920; title: The progressive era, 1890-1920; title: The jazz age 1920-1930; title: The great depression, 1930-1940; title: World war ii home fronts, 1940-1945; title: The feminine mystique, 1945-1965; title: Civil rights and liberal activism, 1945-1975; title: The personal is political, 1960-1980; title: Endings and beginnings, 1980 to 2008.